Cheapest privacy analytics by pageviews, from 10k to 500k a month
At every traffic level, Simplytics is the cheapest paid, hosted privacy-first analytics at $12 a year, with unlimited sites and pageviews. The next-cheapest paid tool is Pirsch, at $72. The other tools charge more as traffic grows, so the gap widens — here is what each one costs at 10k, 50k, 100k and 500k, verified from live pricing pages on 21 October 2026.
What you pay at each traffic level
Annual cost for a paid privacy-first tool, by monthly pageviews. Competitor figures are the yearly-billed price (ten months' price — two months come off on annual billing).
| Pageviews/mo | Simplytics | Plausible | Fathom | Simple Analytics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $12 | $90 | $150 | $200 |
| 50,000 | $12 | $190¹ | $150 | $200 |
| 100,000 | $12 | $190 | $150 | $200 |
| 500,000 | $12 | $490 | $450 | $400 |
¹ Plausible has no 50,000 tier; a 50k site buys the 100k plan.
At every row the comparison is lopsided. Simplytics gives you the core analytics — visitors, pages, referrers, traffic channels, events, outbound clicks and funnels — for $12 a year on as many sites as you like, where the comparable paid tools start at $90 (Plausible) and $150 (Fathom). That is the trade: a lot of the functionality for a lot less money, with fewer advanced features than Plausible's events model or Fathom's revenue attribution.
Why Simplytics is $12 a year at any of these volumes
Every other tool here charges by traffic. Plausible's Starter plan is $9/month for 10,000 pageviews and $49/month for 500,000. Fathom's entry plan is $15/month for up to 100,000. Simple Analytics is $20/month for up to 100,000 datapoints (it counts events as well as pageviews).
Simplytics charges one flat price: $12/year, which is $1/month, billed yearly, for unlimited sites and pageviews. There is no per-volume ladder: a viral month costs what a quiet one does, and real traffic is never paused or capped. Fair use is about fake traffic: known bots are filtered out, and traffic that is clearly an attack may be blocked.
The lowest monthly entry is Pirsch, not Simplytics
If you pay month to month, Pirsch is the lowest entry price in the category: $6/month for 10,000 pageviews on up to 50 sites (verified 21 October 2026), with a 30-day trial and no card. But $6/month is $72 a year — six times Simplytics' $12. Billed annually, Simplytics is the cheapest paid, hosted plan at every volume. Pirsch's own next tier, Plus, is $12/month for unlimited pageviews; Simplytics is unlimited at $12 a year.
The free options
Three tools cost nothing, with trade-offs:
- Google Analytics 4 is free at any volume (GA360 is enterprise-only, from roughly $50,000/year). It sets cookies that generally require consent, ships a script around 145 KB gzipped (re-measured September 2026), and samples large queries.
- Cloudflare Web Analytics is free at any volume and sets no cookies, but it counts visits rather than unique visitors, samples after the first 7 days, and shows only the previous six months.
- Simple Analytics has a free plan for hobby sites: 5 sites, one month of history, and a required badge.
- Matomo is free to self-host (you run the server). Matomo Cloud is priced by hits — a hit is a pageview, event, download, outlink or search — so its counts are not comparable to pageviews.
For how long each tool keeps your data once you are paying, see how long analytics tools keep your data. For what each one weighs on your pages, see the analytics JavaScript size index.
When another tool fits better
- You need a deep events model or revenue goals. Plausible's events and API (on its Business plan) and Fathom's attribution go further than Simplytics' core events and funnels. See Simplytics vs Plausible for the feature split.
- You want it free and will accept estimates. Cloudflare Web Analytics is a fast, cookie-less pageview counter at no cost.
Method
Prices were read from each vendor's official pricing page on 21 October 2026:
- Plausible (plausible.io/#pricing): the Starter tier at each slider notch — "Up to 10k" $9/mo, "Up to 100k" $19/mo, "Up to 200k" $29/mo, "Up to 500k" $49/mo. Annual billing is ten months' price.
- Fathom (usefathom.com/pricing): entry tier up to 100,000 pageviews $15/mo (50 sites); 200k $25/mo; 500k $45/mo. 7-day trial, card required.
- Simple Analytics (simpleanalytics.com/pricing): self-serve slider — 100k datapoints $20/mo, 500k $40/mo; plus a free hobby plan.
- Pirsch (pirsch.io/pricing): Standard $6/mo for 10,000 pageviews (50 sites); Plus $12/mo unlimited. 30-day trial, no card.
- Matomo (matomo.org/pricing): Cloud priced by monthly hits; self-hosting is free software.
Annual figures for Plausible, Fathom and Simple Analytics are the yearly-billed price (ten months' monthly rate). Simplytics' own figures come from its pricing page: $12/year for unlimited sites and pageviews, 30-day trial, no card. Re-run the comparison by opening each page and reading the entry tier at your own traffic level — the ladders move.
Last verified: 2026-10-21.